What is HRV and Why Install One?

What is a HRV? Heat Recovery Ventilation system for your home. Which moves stale air from inside your home to the outside. HRV’s provide fresh air and improves climate control, while saving energy by reducing the heating or cooling needs. The HRV controls the indoor temperature and humidity level and adjust the climate in your house as needed to make a comfortable living space.

 

Creating a Healthier Living Space

As the new building efficiency improves with new products used these days, the buildings become more air tight and lock in the air in the house. All buildings need a source of fresh air, the need for a HRV becomes more important. An HRV works in a way of removing stale moist air and replacing with fresh dry air while warming up the incoming air. There are many benefits of removing stale air and replacing with fresh air. It will give you a healthy climate to live in, provides cleaner, fresher indoor air, which overall air quality within your home will improve and help with people suffering with allergies. The HRV system will create a much healthier place to live.

HVR’s in Older Homes

HRV can be installed in older homes to help with climate control, the building must be somewhat air tight. This can be done by upgrading weather stripping in your door and sealing any draughty areas first.heat-recovery-ventilation HRV can work with most other heating systems and HRV’s aren’t a source heat, it’s a ventilation system’s which brings many benefits in your home.

Maintenance

The maintaining of your HRV is very easy and should be look at every 6 months to make sure the filters are clean or replace them if needed, this is a few minute job. Double check the exterior exhaust hood is clear and the condensate drain is clean. Having a HRV installed in your house will give a clean healthy living environment for many years for all to enjoy.

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